El punctum affectivo: Kawésqar, hijos de la mujer sol de Paz Errázuriz

David William Foster

doi:10.32870/vel.vi5.46

Authors

David William Foster University of Washington

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32870/vel.vi5.46

Keywords:

Kawésqar (Chilean ethnic group), Paz Errázuriz, Roland Barthes, photografic punctum.

Abstract

Paz Errázuriz’s photographic dossier, Kawésqar, hijos de la mujer sol (2006) was undertaken at the request of the subjects themselves, an ethnic group in far southern Chile facing extinction. The images center on the existential weight of the survivors in the milieu of their traditional indigenous lives. Roland Barthes’s concept of the photographic punctum serves to provide the basis for this inquiry into the rhetorical structure of Errázuriz’s images.

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Author Biography

David William Foster, University of Washington

David William Foster is a Regents Professor of Spanish and women and gender studies at Arizona State University. He has written extensively on Argentine narrative and theater, and he has held Fulbright teaching appointments in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. He has also served as an Inter-American Development Bank professor in Chile. Foster has held visiting appointments at Fresno State College, Vanderbilt University, University of California-Los Angeles, University of California-Riverside, and Florida International University. He has conducted six seminars for teachers under the auspices of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the most recent in Sao Paulo in summer 2013.

In 1989, Foster was named the Graduate College's Outstanding Graduate Mentor, and in 1994 he was named Researcher of the Year by the Alumni Association. He received the 2000 Armando Discepolo Prize for theater scholarship awarded annually by GETEA (Grupo de Estudios de Teatro Argentino y Latinoamericano) of the Universidad de Buenos Aires.In 2010, Foster was honored for his lifetime work on Argentine culture by the Centro de Narratoloia at a program held at the Argentine National Library. He is past president of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association.

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